Section: Politics on the Hudson

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has a message for those heading off to college for the first time: Say no to fake IDs. Cuomo’s office issued a warning Wednesday to incoming students, noting an uptick in identity theft connected to underage people providing sensitive information when purchasing false identification from shady overseas outlets. The state Department of […]

State Police said today that they helped a mother find her two children after a limousine driver taking them to the Albany International Airport accidentally drove off without her. The family was in Queensbury near Lake George on Monday as it headed to Albany for a flight to Florida on a Make-A-Wish Foundation trip. At […]

An aging western New York power plant’s $150 million transition from coal to natural gas is officially in limbo, less than two years after Gov. Andrew Cuomo and local officials held a news conference heralding the plan. David Gaier, a spokesman for NRG Energy, said Tuesday the company has put its plans “on hold” for […]

Unemployment rates in every region of New York fell in July, with 15 counties having unemployment rates below 5 percent, the state Labor Department announced today. The statewide unemployment rate fell between June and July from 5.5 percent to 5.4 percent, its lowest level since July 2008. The least significant drop was in the Elmira […]

For one day only, a giant coal plant stood in the shadow of the New York State Capitol on Monday. An inflatable one, that is. Critics of the Cayuga Power Plant in Lansing, Tompkins County, traveled to Albany to drop off what they said were 14,000 comments opposing a plan to allow the coal-fired plant […]

Former New York Gov. George Pataki is running for president as a Republican moderate. Celebrity billionaire Donald Trump is too. They don’t agree. Trump leads the GOP field with 17 percent of the vote in Iowa. Pataki was at less than 1 percent. Pataki, the three-term governor from 1995 through 20016, doesn’t buy it. And […]

Horse racing fans and New York are gearing up for the arrival of American Pharoah, the 2015 Triple Crown winner, to run Saturday at the 146th Travers at the Saratoga Race Course. Along with the excitement, there have been some new rules, warnings and adjustments put in place by the New York Racing Association, the […]

A dispute over where to place a photonics headquarters in downtown Rochester has not caused Gov. Andrew Cuomo to lose faith in the state’s nanotechnology czar. During an interview Friday on Time Warner Cable News’ “Capital Tonight,” Cuomo was asked about the office-space argument, which has spilled into the public view in recent weeks and […]

ABC Latest News | Latest News Videos Investigators spent nearly 20 minutes re-enacting the prison escape made June 6 by two convicted killers at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora. The video, obtained by ABC News, show investigators using video cameras to retrace the steps of Richard Matt and David Sweat, who cut through thick […]

Upstate groups are holding a rally in the Southern Tier on Sunday to build support for upstate to secede from downstate in New York. The rally in Bainbridge, Chenango County, is being organized by some gun-rights groups and landowner groups that are in support of hydraulic fracturing in the Southern Tier. The groups have been […]